One of the artists featured in the RECESS Benefit Auction, Scott Keightley, was another one of my traveling companions on the Open Studio Road Trip. As fellow artists, we talked shop and he mentioned the term "contrapposto" while we waited at stop light people watching. Now, as a self- proclaimed, self-taught artist- I use every opportunity to step my game up. I'm sculptor who's never heard this term, I decided to delve a bit deeper...
"Contrapposto was an extremely important sculptural development for it is the first time in Western art that the human body is used to express a psychological disposition. The balanced, harmonious pose of the Kritios Boy suggests a calm and relaxed state of mind, an evenness of temperament that is part of the ideal of man represented. From this point onwards Greek sculptors went on to explore how the body could convey the whole range of human experience, culminating in the desperate anguish and pathos of Laocoön and his Sons (1st century AD) in the Hellenistic period."
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